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Reviews: Heroic performance; ANTIGONE Birmingham School of Acting, Crescent Theatre.(Features)
From: Birmingham Mail (England)
Date: 20080222
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Byline: JOHN SLIM
JEAN Anouilh's wartime version of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy finds an heroic young company setting out the problem of where the rights of the individual fit into the demands of the state.
The spears of Sophocles have become pretty fearsome guns as Antigone (Simone Somers-Yeates), in a superb and demanding scene with Creon (Kieron Singh) argues her qualms, her conscience and her readiness for death against the King's regal concerns for wider issues. These are two hugely demanding roles and they are accomplished with aplomb, against an excellent ...
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